Our Research Students
HIGHER DEGREE BY RESEARCH (HDR) STUDENTS
Fawzia Alosaimy
Thesis Title: Exploring the Use of Snapchat in Family Life in Saudi Arabia
Supervisory Panel: Glen Fuller, Sora Park, Scott Bridges
Contact: Fawzia.Alosaimy@canberra.edu.au
@Fawzia_Rashdan
Dan Andrew
N&MRC & FAD HDR Representative
RTP Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Selling the Audience: The role of advertisers in the audience marketplace
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Glen Fuller
Contact: Dan.Andrew@canberra.edu.au
Nabeela Asghar
Thesis Title: Youth and Hate Speech: Role of Religious Leadership in Shia-Sunni Conflict
Supervisory Panel: Mathieu O’Neil, Tahmina Rashid
Contact: Nabeela.Asghar@canberra.edu.au
Saffron Bianchi-Howden
Thesis Title: Reducing the impact of disinformation and misinformation: Innoculation vs factchecking
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Caroline Fisher, Jee Young Lee
Contact: XX@canberra.edu.au@saffronhowden
Xiaolan Cai
Thesis Title: Open source smart city projects and impacts on civic engagement in Australia
Supervisory Panel: Mathieu O’Neil, Barbara Norman
Contact: @XiaolanSharon
Mona Chatskin
RTP Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Cases of Alleged Jewish Institutional Child Sex Abuse in Australian Mainstream and Religious Media: Malka Leifer in News Landscapes
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, David Nolan
Contact: Mona.Chatskin@canberra.edu.au
Paul Conroy
Thesis Title: The Media's Role in the Politics of Contemporary Serious Police Misconduct in Australia
Supervisory Panel: David Nolan, Kate Holland, Kerry McCallum
Contact: @pabloabc123
Emma John
‘Breaking Silences’ Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Different Voices: A critical discourse analysis of the ABC's coverage of Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Caroline Fisher
Contact: Emma.John@canberra.edu.au
Lidia Kelly
RTP Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Capturing Crimea, Construing Hong Kong: Challenges and Constraints for Foreign Correspondents in Contemporary Territorial Conflicts
Supervisory Panel: David Nolan, Caroline Fisher, Kerry McCallum, Peter Putnis
Contact: Lidia.Kelly@canberra.edu.au@LidKelly
Zorana Kostic
Thesis Title: Broadcasting Digitalization in Japan: The Case Study of the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) and its Role and Regulatory Practice between 2000-2020.
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Caroline Fisher
Contact: Zorana.Kostic@canberra.edu.au
Natalie Larkins
Thesis Title: Disconnect Between Normative Ideals of Journalism and Practice in Australia
Supervisory Panel: Caroline Fisher, Kerry McCallum, David Nolan
Contact: Natalie.Larkins@canberra.edu.au
Kania Mayastika
Thesis Title: Designing Culturally Appropriate ESP Materials for Political Science Students in Indonesia
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Maya Gunawardena
Contact: XX@canberra.edu.au@majestykania
Anji Perera
FAD HDR Representative
RTP Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Connecting the drops - connecting communities: beyond the boundaries of water literacy
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Mathieu O’Neil, Ross Thompson, Thomas Mollenkopf
Contact: Anji.Perera@canberra.edu.au@Anji_perera
Shara Ranasinghe
Thesis Title: Enhancing Patient-centred Cancer Communication during cancer treatment
Supervisory Panel: Kate Holland, Kasia Bail, Sora Park
Contact: Shara.Ranasinghe@canberra.edu.au@SharaRanasinghe
Prue Robson
Thesis Title: Positioning Canberra: the effectiveness of place image communications in attracting residents to places facing unfavourable stereotypes
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Cathy Hope, James Mahoney
Contact: Prue.Robson@canberra.edu.au@pruerobson
Sonya Sandham
Thesis Title: Overflow: contending with employee voices in organisational discourse in an era of digital disruption
Supervisory Panel: Glen Fuller, Cathy Hope
Contact: Sonya.Sandham@canberra.edu.au@sonyasandham
Jing Su
N&MRC Stipend Scholarship Recipient
Thesis Title: Talking to a Bot is a turn off: users experiences of chatbot communication
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Jee Young Lee
Contact: Jing.Su@canberra.edu.au
Hang Tran
Thesis Title: A Qualitative Research on Framing of Australia's Online News Media in Representing Indigenous Australians' Stories between 2015 and 2020
Supervisory Panel: Kerry McCallum, Sora Park, Wendy Somerville
Contact: Hang.Tran@canberra.edu.au
Danyi Wang
Thesis Title: Negotiating and Integrating Sociocultural Identities Among Chinese Immigrants in Australia
Supervisory Panel: Sora Park, Susan Thwaites
Contact: Danyi.Wang@canberra.edu.au